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unreˈduced, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Sc. Not annulled or repealed. Obs.
1572–3Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 185 The saidis first charter and confirmatioun following thairupoun standing unreducit. 1606[see unquarrelled]. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vi. (1655) 307 The sentence of forfeiture..stood unreduced.
2. Unsubdued; not taken by force.
1689Apol. Fail. Walker's Acc. 20 Whether some Men are not satisfy'd..Ireland be entirely lost,..and remain unreduc'd for some years, rather than Dissenters be employ'd in retrieving it. 1884Leeds Merc. (Weekly Suppl.) 15 Nov. 6/2 Stirling Castle, the chief place of strength.., still remained unreduced.
3. Med. Not restored to a normal state.
1749T. Gataker Le Dran's Operat. Surg. 101 When an intestine is gangrened and remains unreduced. 1782Monro Anat. 39 The annihilation..of the head of a bone.., after an unreduced fracture. 1837Quain Elem. Anat. (ed. 4) 57 Those cases of unreduced dislocations where the tendons slide over bones. 1857T. Watson Lect. Physic (ed. 4) I. 35 The dislocation remaining unreduced.
4. Not dissolved or comminuted.
1782Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 63 Dr. Priestley having..dissolved mercury in the nitrous acid,..constantly found a considerable proportion of it unreduced. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 609 Those [lands] which contain a large proportion of unreduced vegetable matter. 1880J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 24 The rags must..be..drawn out into fibre without having the smallest particle of rag unreduced to half-stuff.
5. Not brought down to simple terms; not applied to some use.
1798Hutton Course Math. I. 251 The rule may be applied at once to an unreduced equation. 1827Pollok Course T. viii. 213 The bigot theologian, in minute Distinctions skilled, and doctrines unreduced To practice.
6. Unlessened, undiminished.
1830Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Further Extr. Const. Code 15 The emptional mode; according to which, mention is made of the greatest sum he will give for it, if unreduced. 1885in Longm. Mag. Mar. (1900) 434 To enable them to maintain their existence, with unreduced vitality, against the severities of the climate.
7. Phonetics. Of a vowel sound or other phonetic element: not reduced (see reduced ppl. a. 6 b).
1953K. H. Jackson Lang. & Hist. Early Brit. 658 Unreduced forms are almost never found in Welsh. 1964E. Blancquaert in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 300 English weakened syllables are pronounced unreduced. |